Improvement in the construction of ornamental-headed picture-nails



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Letters Patent No. 110,287, dated December 20, 1870.

@IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF ORNAMENTALLHEADED PICTURE-NAILS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letter! .Patent and making part of the lame.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THoMAs 0.R1oHARDs,of the city of New York, in the county and State of New tating -the attachment of the same to the nails.

The invention consists in intel-posing between the body of the glass or porcelain head and the back of the same a nut, which is firmly retained by the back,

and adapted to receive the threaded end of the nail or -A in the drawing represents the body of an ornamentalfnail-head, of suitable shape and size.

B is the lnail .or screw.`

O is the nut by which the nail is to be secured to This invention relates to a new arrangement of or' namental picture nail-heads, with the object of facili# the body A, thc'upper or outer end of thenail being provided with a Ascrew-t-lnead, as shown.

D is the metal back of the head. p

rlhe nut C is interposed between the'back D and body A, as shown in figs. 1, 2, 3.,

rlhe nut, which is prismatic, or otherwise-shaped, so as not to be circular, s o that' it cannot turn in its place, is cit-her sunk into the body A, as in fig. 1, or

into a. struck-up port-ion of the back D, as in iig. 2, or

into aperf'orated piece of pasteboard a, or other matter placed into the back l), as in iig. 3.

The nut thus 'interposed betweenthe body and back is held quitesecure, and cannot drop out nor turn.

The back plate is perforated in line with the cavity of the nut, to admit the nail, as shown.

Having thus described my invention, 'I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- '.lhe attachment of the body A to the shank B by means of the metallic back D andnnt O, in the m'anner substantially as described,

THOMAS O. RICHARDS.

Witnesses:

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